# Protect the Majority 2026 **Protect the Majority 2026** (FEC committee **C00961433**) is a **joint-fundraising committee** registered **2026-09-12** — fifty-two days before the general election — pooling the [[National Republican Senatorial Committee]] with three Republican Senate campaigns **and each of those candidates' leadership PACs**. ## Registration | Item | Detail | |---|---| | FEC committee ID | **C00961433** | | Form | **Form 1**, file **2011662**, received **2026-09-12** | | Designation | Joint fundraising committee | | Address | **Athens, GA** | | Treasurer | **[[Paul Kilgore]]** (assistant treasurer Michael Goode) | | Contact domain | `pdscompliance.com` — see [[PDS Compliance]] | | Depository | Classic City Bank, Athens GA | | Filing frequency | Quarterly | ## Participants named on the Form 1 | Participant | What it is | |---|---| | National Republican Senatorial Committee (C00027466) | Party committee | | Collins for Senator | [[Susan Collins]]'s campaign committee — [[ME-Sen-2026]] | | Sununu campaign committee | [[John E. Sununu]] — [[NH-Sen-2026]] | | Hinson campaign committee | [[Ashley Hinson]] — [[IA-Sen-2026]] | | Dirigo PAC | Collins's leadership PAC | | Live Free or Die PAC | Sununu's leadership PAC — itself registered in **Georgia**, not New Hampshire | | Fight On PAC | Hinson's leadership PAC | ## Why the leadership-PAC legs matter A campaign committee plus a party committee in one joint-fundraising account is routine. The three **leadership PACs** are what make this structure more than that: a leadership PAC can transfer to *other* candidates in ways a campaign committee cannot. So the account moves money both **to** the three senators and **through** them. The three races it names are the NRSC's own statement of where the Senate majority is decided — [[ME-Sen-2026]], [[NH-Sen-2026]] and [[IA-Sen-2026]]. Two of the three are open seats; the third is the only Republican-held seat in a state Kamala Harris won in 2024. One of the three leadership PACs, Live Free or Die PAC, files from Georgia rather than New Hampshire, at the same compliance operation as the joint-fundraising committee itself. **Trigger:** a Form 3X disclosing receipts, which would show who is giving at joint-fundraising scale across all three races at once. It is a quarterly filer, so that may land after election day. ## See Also - [[National Republican Senatorial Committee]] · [[New England Victory Fund]] · [[PDS Compliance]] · [[Paul Kilgore]] - [[Susan Collins]] · [[John E. Sununu]] · [[Ashley Hinson]] - [[ME-Sen-2026]] · [[NH-Sen-2026]] · [[IA-Sen-2026]] · [[Joint Fundraising Committee]] - [[Organizations Hub]]